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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Spain mourns slain matador Fandino

Madrid (AFP) - Spain's royal family joined politicians and the bullfighting world Sunday in mourning matador Ivan Fandino, gored to death in a fight in France.
 
 
Fandino died in hospital on Saturday after being gored in the ribs by a bull, whose horn punctured his lung, at the Aire-sur-l'Adour bullfighting festival in the south of France 
(AFP Photo/IROZ GAIZKA)

 

The death of Fandino, a 36-year-old from the northern Basque region, was front page news in several newspapers in Spain, where interest in the controversial centuries-old tradition remains high.
 


Bullfighting retains its popular aura in Spain, which hosts hundreds of shows annually in a country of some six million "aficionados" who see it as a sport that is an art integral to their culture.  
 



Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spain-mourns-slain-matador-fandino-005906884.html  



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